Jaca No. 8 / Chaca / Xaca

FontID: 20802JAC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo [ruins]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Plaza de S. Pedro, Jaca, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Huesca, Aragón

Directions to Site: The ruins discovered and re-buried in Plaza de San Pedro, Jaca town centre

Historical Region: Jacetania

Century and Period: 10th century (early?), Early Romanesque

Church Notes: earliest site probably Visigothic (6th-7thC); present ruins of church here ca. 920-930? renovated 1631; demolished 1841 -- [cf. entry for this site in Antonio García Omedes [www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Jacetania/08-JacaSPV01.htm] [accessed 1 December 2016]

UTM: 30T 701159 4716033